[Techtalk] Trying to get octave to compile.

Sue Stones suzo at spin.net.au
Sat Mar 20 17:04:50 EST 2004


Well its been asaga, but I have eventually got octave running.

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:23 pm, John Clarke wrote:
>
> I don't know which version of mandrake you're running, but I've just
> checked and it's available as an rpm in 9.1 and 9.2.  If you're running
> one of those two it might be worth grabbing the rpm and installing it
> rather than trying to build from source.

I had looked previously for rpms, and found myself going raound and round in 
circles not fining them.  After you siad this I tried again and realised that 
what I thought was just a headding on the page was in fact a link to the rpm.

So I downloaded and tried octave-2.1.50... Half a dozen more pacages 
downloaded and installed, and I all but destroyed the OS, as the packages 
removed things that they weren't compatible with, including "rpm" making it 
hard to reinstall those things.

So I started from scratch and reinstalled Mandrake (I have 9.1 by the way) 
then thought I might as well try the rpm update again, but once again it just 
destroyed the program it was using to install itself!  Attempts to repair 
this failed, so it was install Mandrake again.

After that I decided that if the octave rmp needed upgrages on such key 
packages and libraries then it wasn't compatable with my system.  So I 
downloaded and tried to install some earlier versions of octave (rpms).  ut 
with no success.

Fially I decided to have another go at building octave-2.1.57 and it worked 
first time.  (all that stuffing around eventually meant that I had the right 
packages installed).

Such a relief.  Now I only have to learn how to use it!  And to try and 
remeber what I had done to my ssytem to make things work, and to reinstall 
the rest of the software.

Thaks so much for the help John, and also others.  And thanks to the list in 
general for existing.

sue





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